Vintage Wargaming

This and the following three posts have been made in response to a request from Chris, who was looking for specific articles from early issu...

by Gary L. Bloomfield, from the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the USA Magazine, February 1995.

Watching the cricket match episode of Dad's Army today (the one with Fred Truman) reminded me I hadn't posted Terry Wise's Opera...

Two more undated articles, the second is from around but after 1971. I don't know which publications they are from. I apologise for the ...

M S Foy's and Anonymous's comments on the Waterloo refight at the Duke of York Barracks (below, here ) have made the connection wit...

Third and final instalment on a theme, this time from the Cambridge Evening News of Saturday 13 1972. I think one line of the article may ha...

David Wesely, one of the subjects of the 1966 article posted below, has been in touch. This has proved one of the most widely read posts on ...

Another Don Featherstone photograph, again undated, and captioned "Wellington and Napoleon at the start of a reconstructed Battle of Wa...

I don't have a date or attribution for this cutting - I think it is from the Southampton Echo, and possibly from the 1970s?

With apologies again for the quality of the scans (given the condition of the original they are the best I could do on my scanner...

Further to my previous posts on Lionel Tarr, here are what appear to be some original photographs of his wargame set up in his loft, for hi...

Apologies for the quality of the scan - my original is a photocopy of the newspaper article which has cut a little of each edge of the artic...

Over on his Wargaming Miscellany blog in November, Bob Cordery made a couple of posts ( here and here ) about the articles in one of the wa...

Exotic (because of their sheer range and variety, and the difficulty in obtaining them in the UK), and exotic (because 1/87 scale, though co...

Brian contacted me about an ad he remembered from Miniature Warfare for a game called Coup d'Etat. Here are two versions of the ad - the...

While waiting for day 4 of the Adelaide Ashes test to start, I noticed that the blog has acquired its 111th follower. If you are not au fait...